Survey and Introduction to the Focused Section on Bio-Inspired Mechatronics

Author

Sitti, Metin ; Menciassi, A. ; Ijspeert, Auke J. ; Kin Huat Low ; Sangbae Kim

Author_Institution

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

18

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Apr-13

Firstpage

409

Lastpage

418

Abstract

Understanding and adapting the underlying principles of biological systems to engineering systems have the promise of enabling many new mechatronic systems that can operate in unstructured and uncertain environments robustly and efficiently. This paper first reports a brief survey of recent studies on bio-inspired mechatronic systems and their biological counterparts in respects of locomotion, actuation, sensing, and control. Next, brief highlights of the 20 papers in this “Focused Section on Bio-Inspired Mechatronics” are given. Finally, current challenges and future trends of bio-inspired mechatronic systems are described.

Keywords

control system synthesis; mechatronics; actuation; bio-inspired mechatronic system; biological system; control system; engineering system; locomotion; sensing system; Biological systems modeling; Legged locomotion; Robot sensing systems; Special issues and sections; Actuation; biological inspiration; control; design; locomotion; mechatronics; sensing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Mechatronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1083-4435

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMECH.2012.2233492

Filename

6400251